Literary Review:
‘A low carb diet is better for people’s everyday meals than low fat diets’
Introduction
The idea behind this hypothesis that makes it such a conspiracy theory is that it disapproves the global known fact that Carbohydrates are beneficial for your health and saturated fats are silent killers.
Modern dieticians completely support the food pyramid; it is something taught unwaveringly to schoolchildren each day, but what if you were told everything you put in your mouth that you believe makes you skinny is all based on one man’s faltering research.
In order to justify that the consummation of less bread is in fact better than eating less steak, the history of one of the most famous supporters of this infamous diets must be taken into account, and that is of Sir William Banting. He was a popular London undertaker of 1862 and morbidly obese because of his high carbohydrate diet and when it finally came to the point where his weight was affecting his hearing abilities, his doctor prescribed a high fat diet and after years of weight struggles he was finally able to maintain his weight. Afterwards, he wrote his famous Letter of Corpulence supporting this theory and the Banting diet was born.
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So he went out to prove it but he left out in his selective research 16 out of 22 countries he observed because they didn’t support his biased account and he didn’t look at the other serious factors such as the increasing smoking habit among people. But the turning point was in 1977 when Dietary Goals for Americans (USDGA) was formed based solely on Ancel Keys’ high carb low fat diet. This is something that many in this world have been following for nearly four decades and it has had tragic